- References
- External links
{{Cleanup|date=June 2009}}49 Minutes of Jazz was Radio Liberty musical review by Dmitri Savitski (aka DS) from 1989 to 2004. The theme song of the program was "So Tired" by Bobby Timmons. The program started in 1989 and was called 49 and a Half Minutes of Jazz, but advertising led to the elimination of thirty seconds from the program. The program was cancelled on April 10, 2004 due to "the change of Liberty's format". In those 15 years DS made 693 issues, 49 minutes each (33,957 minutes in total). He interviewed Ahmad Jamal, Benny Golson, Jimmy "Jammin'" Smith, Wynton Marsalis and other jazz stars. The program that resumed on 1 April 2008 was called 9 minutes of Jazz. On May 7, 2008 it was expanded to 14 minutes and called Jazz at Liberty. On March 1, 2009 it was renamed Jazz Time and nearly reverted to its original format of 48 minutes. — How did 49 minutes of jazz began? — I was at Horace Silver's at Malibu, California, interviewing him for Le Mond de la Musique, when I got an insight to make a radio program about jazz from this interview and then to propose it to Liberty. The idea was warmly accepted by Liberty producer Ruslan Geliskhanov. He invited me to Munich and we made a pilot-set.[1]
— Mario Corti (ex-director of Radio Liberty's Russian Service): One of the reasons given for my removal was that I "resisted changes". After my removal, the RFE/RL management put their own people in management positions in the Russian Service to carry out their plans. They shut down many cultural programs, including the brilliant and popular broadcasts by Sergei Iourienen. They also shut down serious analytical programs, "Commentators at a Roundtable" as well as Paramonov's show (which they later reinstated), shut down Savitsky's popular program on jazz (recently reinstated). They changed the format of other shows, expanded the number of talk shows, and so on.[2]
References1. ^2006.
2. ^Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Has Lost Its Uniqueness Warns Former Director of Radio Liberty's Russian Service
External links- Signatures' collecting to Director of Radio Free Europe—Radio Liberty. Petition to defend Savitski's program (May 31, 2007).
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090210143151/http://svoboda.org/programs/jz/ Program's audio archive from 18 April, 1998 to 10 April, 2004.]
- Podcast of Jazz Time in mp3
{{DEFAULTSORT:49 Minutes Of Jazz}} 2 : British jazz radio programs|1989 radio programme debuts |